Foreword / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Note from Marcellina Ada Ogbu / Marcellina Ada Ogbu
Pt. I. History and Framework
1. History and Status of a Theoretical Debate / John U. Ogbu
2. Collective Identity and the Burden of "Acting White" in Black History, Community, and Education / John U. Ogbu
3. Ways of Knowing: The Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Collective Identity and Schooling / John U. Ogbu
4. Multiple Sources of Peer Pressures among African American Students / John U. Ogbu
5. Language and Collective Identity among Adults and Students in a Black Community / John U. Ogbu
6. "Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That": John Ogbu (and Me) and the Nine Lives Peoples / Signithia Fordham
Pt. II. Collective Identity, Black Americans, and Schooling
7. High School Students of Color Talk about Accusations of "Acting White" / David A. Bergin and Helen C. Cooks
8. Black Students' Identity and Acting White and Black / Linwood Cousins
9. Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology (The Remix) / A. A. Akom
10. What does "Acting White" Actually Mean? Racial Identity, Adolescent Development, and Academic Achievement among African American Youth / Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani
11. "Excellence" and Student Class, Race, and Gender Cultures / Lois Weis
12. Racial Identity Attitudes, School Achievement, and Academic Self-Efficacy among African American High School Students / Karen McCurtis Witherspoon, Suzette L. Speight and Anita Jones Thomas
Pt. III. Reassessment and Methodological Issues
13. Burden of "Acting White": Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement? / Phillip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
14. Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Confirming Oppositional Culture Theory / Douglas B. Downey
15. Quantitative Studies of Oppositional Culture: Arguments and Evidence / George Farkas
16. Structure of Opportunity and Adolescents' Academic Achievement Attitudes and Behaviors / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
17. Oppositional Identity and Academic Achievement among African American Males / Miles Anthony Irving and Cynthia Hudley
Pt. IV. Cross-Cultural Studies of Identity
18. Situational Ethnicity and Patterns of School Performance among Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Mexican-Descent Students / Maria Eugenia Matute-Bianchi
19. Navajo Youth and Anglo Racism: Cultural Integrity and Resistance / Donna Deyhle
20. Quantitative Examination of Oppositional Identity among African American and Latino Middle-School Students / April Taylor
21. Ogbu's Voluntary and Involuntary Minority Hypothesis and the Politics of Caring / Angela Valenzuela
Pt. V. Model Programs and Applications
22. Forming Academic Identities: Accommodation without Assimilation among Involuntary Minorities / Hugh Mehan, Lea Hubbard and Irene Villanueva
23. Minority Achievement Committee: Students Leading Students to Greater Success in School / Mary Lynne McGovern, Astrid Davis and John U. Ogbu
24. Forward-Looking Criticism: Critiques and Enhancements for the Next Generation of the Cultural-Ecological Model / Kevin Michael Foster
Appendix: Black Students' School Success: Coping with the "Burden of 'Acting White' " / Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu.
